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#caves

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Sunguramy :nb_lily:

Keep fighting for the Earth, it is our only home.

Caves are a space highly at risk, and many species in them can be "canaries in the coal mine". The water in them tells the tale of the surface above: pollution, fertilizer, pesticides, microplastics, and more. Too bad wealth doesn't trickle down like pollution into ecosystems. We should really swap those two...

A male with a big bushy beard and moustache, wearing a gold helemet with light on it, blue shirt, and dark pants, holds notebook in hand to record biological data from a cave. The cave is back lit, the limestone strata clear on the walls. There is a streamway running by.
#caves#caving#nature
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Lukas VFN 🇪🇺

Fluorescent #caves could explain how life can be supported in extraterrestrial environments
phys.org/news/2025-03-fluoresc

"Typically, to understand the chemical makeup of a #cave, a sample is taken back to the lab. Sebree & team collect #fluorescence spectra on their expeditions... they take the information but leave the cave intact. Anna Van Der Weide is building a public inventory of fluorescence fingerprints... Jacqueline Heggen is exploring the caves as a simulated environment for #astrobiology"

A section of a cave seen under normal white light (left image) transforms into something otherworldly when placed under UV light (right image). Different sections of cave walls glow in bright greens and blues.
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Jeff Munroe

A year ago this week I was with a team conducting research in the Scărişoara Ice Cave, #romania. This spectacular place contains #ice dating back more than 10,000 years! This unique archive holds valuable information about past #climate variability in this region. Some of the interesting work that has been done in this cave is reported here: nature.com/articles/s41598-017 Photo by M. Blatnik. #caves #caving #geology #earthscience #environment

A person in a yellow suit with a black helmet and a light descends a steep slope of ice while connected to a rope. The person is illuminated from behind.
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Sunguramy :nb_lily:

Happy Valentine's Day from a gypsum heart in a cave.

Speaking of hearts, let's have some Real Talk! About hearts! Today I re-certified in CPR & First Aid. Did you know that socialized as female folk are far more likely to die from a heart attack / cardiac event than men? It's true! A large cause of this is due to the fact that symptoms are often not as-seen-on-TV; instead being brushed off as nausea, acid reflux, or indigestion. And what do we do when we feel ick? We go to the bathroom. So when we collapse, no one is around to see, much less administer CPR. So: check on your friends who disappear to the bathroom for a long time!

Sadly, there is also a huge disparity between races in survival as well. Not only does lack of medical access and environment & social factors mean there is higher risk (systematic racism), but overt racism also prevents bystanders from stepping in to help. Black & Latinx people suffer the most. (newsroom.heart.org/news/cardio)

CPR is not that difficult! It is more the mental challenge of being prepared to step in and help. If you can't get to a class (hands on with the training manikins is certainly recommended if you can!) still learn about it. All 50 states have Good Samaritan laws.

I personally know two people who are alive thanks to a normal everyday person knowing CPR, and intervening. This is community building, y'all! Take care of each other out there.

Some additional tips:
1. If someone has a medical emergency and you end up leading the way, always point and directly tell people what to do (ex: you in the blue shirt *pointing at them* call 911). If you just shout things, people will not jump into action. Be specific & direct.

2. Always check for a pulse on the same side you are kneeling on, you don't want to reach across their neck.

3. If there are enough people, direct folk not involved in helping to form a circle looking *out*. This gives some privacy, very important in these days of cell phone cameras and the fact that say, once the AED shows up, their chest will be made bare. Help protect the patient's privacy!

4. Good Samaritan laws generally have caveats such as never accept anything as a thank you (not even flowers, *nothing*) and stay with the person until someone of equal or greater training arrives. So if you say, start CPR then just get tired and stop with no one equal or higher taking over, then you are liable.

Limestone rock in a cave covered with shiny white crystals. In the middle of the image are longer kinda comb or hair shaped crystaline structure, forming a heart shape.
#heart#love#valentine
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